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This conference brings together researchers who work in the intersection of language teaching/learning and technology. Theoretical and applied issues in computer-assisted language learning (CALL), Computer-Assisted Testing (CAT), and the use of artificial intelligence and natural language processing techniques in these areas all fall within the framework of TSLL.

Many advances in computer-assisted language learning (CALL) require an increase in the technical knowledge about diagnostic assessment, student models, and natural language processing to design adaptive instruction. This conference brings together the researchers and graduate students working to address questions about these areas. The plenary speaker is well-known for his work drawing on statistical methods and cognitive psychology to integrate these strands of research conceptually and in practice.

Proposals are invited for papers in the following areas:

-Diagnostic language assessment

How can useful areas of diagnostic information be selected by materials developers?

How can reliability of diagnostic inferences be achieved and monitored?

How can diagnostic feedback be communicated to language learners?

What evidence suggests that language learners are able to use and benefit from diagnostic feedback?

- Student models and complex record-keeping in language learning

How can learners' language performance be summarized and stored for subsequent use?

What practical and ethical issues affect construction and use of student models?

-Natural language processing for analysis of learners' responses

How can NLP techniques be implemented in CALL and assessment to yield diagnostic information?

Meeting Description For more than a decade, the TIA group has studied the large field of terminological questions, confronting and combining various disciplines: Linguistics, Natural Language Processing, Artificial Intelligence, Information Sciences, Knowledge Engineering, etc. Knowledge is memorised and transmitted in documents. In scientific or technical fields (medicine, aeronautics, education, etc), terms play an important role in ensuring the precision of information. The rise of the internet and globalisation have increased the sharing of written documents between cultures and thus, between languages, but also between fields. This phenomenon creates new problems which emerge when exogenic knowledge is appropriated by a community gathered around a topic. TIA 2007 will be particularly focused on the migration of terms which can be understood as the passage from a language to another, from a domain to another, from an application to another, or as an evolution through time. The problem which underlies this question is the instability of terms and has been left unconsidered in order to give precedence to the needs for standardization. Communications may tackle theoretical questions or consider methodological aspects. Interdisciplinary studies which stress the possible convergences and co-operations between various disciplines around terminological questions are particularly welcome.

Format of Submissions Papers, in French or English, will not have to exceed 10 pages in Times 12, simple spacing, that is to say approximately 3000 words, figures, including examples and references. They will have to contain, on a separated page, the following elements: - name(s) of author(s) - affiliation(s), addresses, fax and e-mail - title of the tender - 5 to 10 keywords in French or in English - abstract in English (300 words maximum) - abstract in French (300 words maximum)

It is possible to directly submit a poster communication (4 to 6 pages).